Government & Policy
HRSA releases community clinic finder while DOD launches mobile app to track service members emotional health after deployment.
The stage is set for an explosion in population health mapping that will serve up a 'visual understanding' of disease trends and directions.
Health & Human Services invites states to take innovative approaches to building e-commerce systems for health insurance shoppers.
The HITECH Act assigned Regional Extension Centers (RECs) with the task of disseminating knowledge, skills and best practices related to electronic medical record (EMR) system acquisition, implementation and operation to healthcare providers in need of such guidance.
Readers weigh in on personal health information, the risk of a health IT digital divide, and governance of the Nationwide Health Information Network.
The Centers Medicare and Medicaid Services prepares to launch Web site to help consumers shop for physicians.
Recent contracts are noted
Excerpts from health IT blogs.
Federal health IT policymakers are relying on agencies to help troubleshoot new standards and uses of an emerging nationwide health information network.
State HIE plans vary in approach but all aim to be operating in first half of 2011, according to filings with the Office of the National Coordinator.